Television and ideologies of everyday life; mediated representations of gender, race, class, etc.; spectacles of gender ideology; representations of the body

Education

Ph.D., Radio/TV/Film, Northwestern University 1992

M.A., Radio/TV/Film, Northwestern University 1985

B.A., Speech Communication, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1983

Selected Publications

“What Puts the ‘Me’ in Media? An Umphaloskeptic Meditation on Television and Identity.” In Speaking Up and Acting Out: Women and the Media, ed. Ann Russo and Sandra Jackson. Peter Lang, Inc., 2002.

(with Elizabeth Kelly) “In Goldilocks’ Footsteps: Exploring the Discursive Construction of Gay Masculinity in Bear Magazines.” In Opposite Sex: Lesbians and Gay Men Writing About Each Other’s Sexuality, ed. Sara Miles and Eric Rofes. New York: New York University Press, 1998.